afficio 2051 "Please Wait"

[Guest]

I'm having a very strange problem with my Ricoh Afficio 2051. After start up it works fine for the first job(1 page or 1000 pages job is the same) but after that it displays Please Wait. If i give order for a second job it just stays "Please wait, printing will start after warming up". if i shut it down and start up again it will work fine again only for the first job.
It occasionally displays the SC345 code but I don't think it has something to do with this problem.
Hope someone has had this problem before and will be able to help me.
Thank you!

[ccchuah]

Re: afficio 2051 "Please Wait"

Try to clean the PCU and drum potential sensor, if not , have a try to replace the BCU board.

[visi6630]

Re: afficio 2051 "Please Wait"

Try to clean the PCU and drum potential sensor, if not , have a try to replace the BCU board.

The drum is new, the fuser roller is new. It works like a charm for the first job, the machine has over 2million copies but works fine. the problem occurred after the machine was not being used for 3 weeks.

[Eric1968]

Re: afficio 2051 "Please Wait"

x2 for cleaning of the Drum Potential Sensor (coomon problem with this series).

[Sweden_GBG]

How about the HDD?? Had simulary problem... anyway 2mil copy was high. The highest copyier we got at mpc 205x is about 500.000 and we think it,s time to replace it we talk about max 5-7k copiers/month...

[andy227]

Re: afficio 2051 "Please Wait"

, have a try to replace the BCU board.

I don't know the 2051, however on any machine any suspicion of faulty PCB's and advise to replace, is oh so difficult. You need to have another identical model machine available to you to yank the board and replace on the faulty machine to confirm the problem is solved. Not a lot of customers will allow you to take a board from their machine to try on another. And I for one, would not want to order a new board, at a cost of hundreds of whatever currency, for the possible chance that it is the BCU (or whatever else). Who pays if it ain't the said board ? It is usually the time to prepare them for replacing the machine.

How about the HDD??

If there is a HDD problem shouldn't it throw an SC code ?

[TonerMunkeh]

Re: afficio 2051 "Please Wait"

If there is a HDD problem shouldn't it throw an SC code ?

Nah, I'd say 75% of "Please Wait" problems are HDD related. Bad or corrupted sectors are the usual cause. It's only the newer kit that actually displays solid HDD sc's, the older kit gave ones like 672 etc.

[andy227]

Re: afficio 2051 "Please Wait"

I forgot to mention in the earlier post, that with HDD, any suspicion of course is easily confirmed by simply disconnecting the drive, whereas with the PCB you need to find a replacement to confirm.

[visi6630]

Re: afficio 2051 "Please Wait"

I forgot to mention in the earlier post, that with HDD, any suspicion of course is easily confirmed by simply disconnecting the drive, whereas with the PCB you need to find a replacement to confirm.

So, will it work the same without the HDD. I use this machine only as a photocopy and a printer so i do not need the HDD very much.

[andy227]

Re: afficio 2051 "Please Wait"

Without the HDD it will have some limitations depending on the machine, maybe the duplex won't show on the panel, or some such, BUT it will go ready and you will know where the fault lay.

[visi6630]

Re: afficio 2051 "Please Wait"

Without the HDD it will have some limitations depending on the machine, maybe the duplex won't show on the panel, or some such, BUT it will go ready and you will know where the fault lay.

Thank you very much. I will let you know as soon as I test it.

[Exok]

Re: afficio 2051 "Please Wait"

I've seen this problem once before on a Savin 4075. I spoke to a guy at the Savin Tech Support Hotline and his advice worked so I wrote myself a note in case I ever saw this problem again. Follow these steps:

Set SP 1104 to 0

Set SP 3904 as follows:
if it is 0, set to 1
if it is 1, set to 2
if it is 2, set to 1

[Shadow1]

Re: afficio 2051 "Please Wait"

+1 for the HDD - Much more likely to have failed than a board especially since you have an intermittent problem. Judging by how many I've had to replace recently, you probably should carry one.

[visi6630]

Re: afficio 2051 "Please Wait"

I've seen this problem once before on a Savin 4075. I spoke to a guy at the Savin Tech Support Hotline and his advice worked so I wrote myself a note in case I ever saw this problem again. Follow these steps:

Set SP 1104 to 0

Set SP 3904 as follows:
if it is 0, set to 1
if it is 1, set to 2
if it is 2, set to 1

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Solve d!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you very much Exok for giving me this solution and to everyone else for posting in this thread. 1104 was already 0, i changed 3904 form 0 to 1 and now it is working fine I am mad with myself because i struggled for 2 almost months to find the problem and I didn't post here before. The bright side is that now all the parts on my ricoh are new and it is working ok.

[andy227]

Re: afficio 2051 "Please Wait"

Set SP 1104 to 0

Set SP 3904 as follows:
if it is 0, set to 1
if it is 1, set to 2
if it is 2, set to 1

Out of curiosity, what exactly has he changed with these settings to fix his problem ? Does a similar fix work for other models. Had a "please wait" occasionally pop up on a DSM620, and when I looked for the HDD to disconnect I found that it doesn't have a HDD. Its behaving lately but I expect it sometime to rear its ugly head again.